Season 2 - Episode 6 - Eric Lemieur

The Talking Friendship with Mike D Podcast

In Season 2 Episode 6 Mike welcomes one of the more solid friends he’s ever made named Eric Lemieur into the Virtual Podcast Studio where they discuss a Disney-esque flag football team known as the Raiders, Buddy Bubner, the Vox and the Miyagi Proud Face.

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Key moments from the pod:

0:30: Mike welcomes listeners to S2E6.

1:50: Mike teases the next Point Fiver of Season 2 which is coming as episode 6.5. It involves a guest who was a listener favorite from Episode 1 (S1E4 guest John Baker!) and it also involves music.

3:00: Mike then goes over some recent challenges with the podcast staff (Listeners - the staff could use your support right now) before getting into some corrections from the S2E5 featuring Chris Duprey.

7:50: Mike talks about what’s going on with him, and this time it centers around the sport of tennis, including his top 5 favorite things about it which involve his unorthodox technique, an amazing romantic comedy that takes place at one of Mike’s favorite tournaments, his usual Saturday morning game in Ann Arbor, and a band that bears the sport’s name.

19:50: Mike welcomes Eric Lemieur to the Podcast.

20:20: Eric breaks down his enthralling life story, including rising from the ashes in Southeastern Michigan and his docile children.

22:15: Eric updates the listeners on how life is going in his neck of the woods and it involves a lot of youth sports, trips to the Sunshine State and playing a little below average golf.

28:20: Eric then talks about who his longest running friend is and how that friendship stays strong (warning: Eric drops an extremely insightful quote from “To Kill a Mockingbird”). It’s actually his cousin Pat Cupples, who Eric compares to Arnold Schwarzenegger and himself to Danny DeVito.

32:25: Mike and Eric talk about the last time they saw each other in person, back in February of 2020.

33:50: Mike and Eric then talk about the historic origins of their friendship at the house of the fraternity Mike was pledging at the time, including robbing the house of a significant amount of Hamm’s Ice.

37:30: Eric talks about an early attempt by Eric’s roommate from his fraternity house (Adam “the Moose” Morse) to mount a non-flat screen to the wall in their room.

40:15: Mike and Eric go DEEP about CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) basketball when they were kids in the Detroit area and how amazing of an experience it was.

43:50: Mike and Eric tell the long overdue tale of the 2000 Raiders IM Flag Football Team. It’s basically a Disney movie.

47:30: Eric talks about living at 911 Greenwood while in college, the giant projector TV in the house, and the interesting tradition that would happen during house parties they hosted.

50:10: Mike and Eric talk about one of their all time favorite golfers: Robert Edward Charles “Buddy” Bubner.

51:50: Mike and Eric discuss “The Vox” which is a primary way they stay in touch with each other and a few other friends.

56:00: Mike and Eric then get into one of their all time favorite live sports watching memories which took place at Wrigley Field in 2006 for a Tigers/Cubs game.

59:00: Eric gives his keys to a good friendship at this place while quoting the movie “Stand By Me”.

1:02:03: Eric then discusses what he’s excited about on his end for the next few months, including lots of trips.

1:04:45: Mike takes Eric through the (not so) Rapid Fire segment, including walking his sons around U-M’s campus, taking trips with his family, his favorite place to travel when he was traveling for business, his favorite recent TV shows, his favorite dinner spots in GR, and his all time favorite University of Michigan sports memories.